Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice..

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present..

Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect but never yield ….

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to Californi….

At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolit….

Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all dee….

I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is struc….

Blood is not destiny..

Men are loyal when you lead from the front..

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague..

For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear foc….

Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong ….

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is fa….

A desert's a stupid place to put a river..

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you..

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade..